Handprinted gift wraps

Gifts, they are great to give and get! The best part of the gift is how it's wrapped, if looks nice from outside it will be nice on the inside for sure and opening a beautifully wrapped present is all the more exciting. There can be so many possibilities and ideas to wrap a present and it all depends on the wrapping paper. I am so over the regular "Merry Christmas" printed wrapping papers and the ones which are different are really expensive. Here is a great idea to make your own wrapping papers. You can customise them to any design, print or colour as you prefer and play around with the idea. 

I have printed random geometrical motifs on Gold coloured tissue paper with poster paints.

I used pumpkin and leek to create these patterns. Just carve out your vegetables or use them as is and dip them in paint and start printing, make lines or circles or just random patterns on the paper. I used tissue paper as the gold colour paper is slightly more dense than the other colours. you can use crepe paper or any plain coloured wrapping paper and print on them. White base with bright colours will give a really nice effect.

I used black contrasting paper under my ribbon and also punched a lace edge pattern on a plain white paper to lift the printed pattern on the wrapping paper. Play around and you don't have to be perfect with the print placement, that is the beauty of this idea.